Corelli / Veracini / Sammartini: Baroque Music for Recorder

Featuring

Dan Laurin
Parnassus Avenue
Arcangelo Corelli
Diogenio Bigaglia
Giuseppe Sammartini
Pietro Giuseppe Gaetano Boni

Francesco Maria Veracini
Francesco Barsanti
Benedetto Marcello

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Composer's Artistic Vision

A typical feature of Corelli's music is the interaction with the player, where the top part in slow movements must be embellished according to the performer's taste and skill, making the performer part of the creative process.

Performer Biography

Dan Laurin, the recorder virtuoso on this album, has won numerous awards including a Grammy and the Society of Swedish Composers' prize for best interpretation of contemporary Swedish music.

Performer Biography

Dan Laurin collaborated with Australian instrument maker Frederick Morgan to reconstruct historical instruments, greatly enriching the world of recorder music.

Interpretation

The performers on this album believe there is no 'early' music, only a never-ending 'now', constantly challenging their 'baroque standards'.

Performer Biography

Dan Laurin is a professor of the recorder at Stockholm's Royal University College of Music and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Interpretation

Parnassus Avenue, the ensemble on this recording, was formed from a shared improvisatory rehearsal method where each interpretation leads to a new one, aiming for every performance to be entirely new.

Compositional Technique

Arcangelo Corelli's Opus 5 violin sonatas are divided into two parts: Sonate da chiesa with intricate counterpoint, and Sonate da camera with dance-like movements resembling an Italian version of the French suite.